Monday, February 6, 2012, 06:13 PM
Last week Kai suffered from an infection that led us to the dr's office and then to Children's Urgent Care. It was tough for me to see him in pain. Fortunately, for antibiotics, he was much better the next day even.
This weekend we mostly did errands and sorts. I took the kids shoe shopping and Kai was so excited to try on all of the different shoes and run in them in the store. He picked some star wars shoes that light up on the toe and heal. Lorelai chose some running shoes that look a lot like my running shoes. They were both very excited to wear their new shoes wherever they go now. New shoes is exciting for them now I guess.
Lorelai has been closing the door to her room and listening to her music for hours at a time. She just wants to listen to her songs over and over by herself. Kai has been a little sweetie always wanting to come sit in my lap. She also has been writing things on post-it notes and leaving them on our door. This morning Kai had a message that said I love you Kai. Yesterday Lorelai left us hearts on post-it notes in our bathroom.
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( 0 / 0 )Sunday, January 29, 2012, 12:29 PM
Well, it has been a while since I blogged. I need to get better at it again. A lot has happened since last time. Kai had his 4th birthday. He had a lot of time with his 3 birthday celebrations. We had a little family party the night of his birthday. The day after we brought mini frog cupcakes into the his preschool class to have a class celebration. Then that weekend the grandparents all came over to have another celebration. He chose hotdogs and chips for his birthday dinner and a chocolate cake. He got legos, a new toy story backpack and a few other things.
After his birthday we had a little snow. Lorelai's school was canceled for 3 days and Kai's school was canceled 2 days and very late and limited the 3rd day. The kids enjoyed sledding, making snow angels, and just playing in the snow each day. They seemed liked they missed school but they also seemed like they enjoyed being home with us too.
This weekend we had some friends over for dinner finally. We had been so busy trying to remodel last year that we didn't really get much of a chance to have people over. It was nice to be able to see everyone.
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( 0 / 0 )Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 07:53 PM
Back to work. We enjoyed having the winter break. The first three days we spent entertaining. We had friends over the first day for the regular visiting. Then James' parents came up and stayed with us a couple days for Christmas eve and Christmas. The kids enjoyed another Christmas and were full of excitement. The the rest of the break was a lot of doing things around the house and recovering from colds. We did get out to take the kids ice skating for the first time. Lorelai did a great job, Kai did pretty good himself but he was holding our hands and on the wall most of the time. Lorelai did some skating on her own but after a couple of falls (one that was pretty hard I guess) she decided she had enough. It was really fun though and I think the kids had fun. Another day we took the kids to see the Muppets. They seemed to enjoy watching the movie. Lorelai said afterwards that it was weird that the movie was a new movie but it was like it was old too. I asked her why she thought it was old and she said it was because of the telephones. They had some old style phones. It think I remember one or two of them being rotary phones. She said she enjoyed the movie. Kai was a little bit antsy at parts but once he was sitting on James' lap he seemed like he was going to fall asleep. We went shopping and finally purchased some mounts - one for the tv and one for the projector and a new faucet. The faucet that came with this house looked pretty but it had some issues. James was able to install the tv mount and the faucet. One of these days we will feel like we are moved in... I still don't quite feel all the way like it is home with all of the remodeling. Yesterday I took Lorelai to go try on flower girl dresses because Sarah was trying on wedding dresses. We picked a dress that looks really cute on Lorelai. She is excited to be the flower girl.
For New Year's Eve we celebrated Easter time again with the kids. Lorelai actually understood what that meant this year. Erin, Darren, Kevin, and Veronica came over to help us bring in the new year (early style).
I have been thinking of new years resolutions. I am having a hard time coming up with ones. I am going to try to let a couple of things go - tidying up after as much of our paperwork. I am working hard at not caring so much about things at work. I like caring, but I don't like caring so much that it keeps me up thinking about things at night that I don't like to think about. I hope to try to get out for even more bike rides with the family this year and I want to try to spend more time working out at night so that it is the same time that James works out so that he hopefully is more motivated to get more exercise (he told me that would help).
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( 0 / 0 )Monday, November 21, 2011, 02:35 PM
Kai is out of speech therapy. He has been doing so well he passed his age testing and was just improving so dramatically. So they said, no more speech therapy. He can't pronounce all of his letters, but he is doing what is normal for his age. He now prefers to say "she" in every sentence instead of "her" when appropriate... so he is still figuring that out. We also went and spoke to the district speech therapist and she thought he sounded fine also.
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( 3 / 5 )Monday, November 21, 2011, 02:28 PM
Friday evening we went to the cultural fair at Lorelai's school. It was a very popular event. Before they opened up the book fair so Lorelai and Kai both picked out a book they wanted. Then we went to the cultural fair and families had created a tri-fold board of their country and most of them brought a dish to share. After that they started the performance. They had different musicians perform various cultural music. Lorelai went on stage with her Chinese class and they did a Simon Says type thing on stage. Lorelai held a microphone the whole time and she did a great job. She didn't act shy at all. She is becoming confident in the Chinese words that she knows.
This weekend James worked on the siding on the front of the house where he earlier found dry rot when he was replacing Kai's flooring. I worked on getting Christmas gifts ready trying to beat the Christmas rush. Lorelai and Kai played most of the weekend. One of the mornings Kai was going to change into his clothes. He took off his pajamas and then he noticed the legos just sitting there. I walked past the room and he was playing legos without any clothes on. He was pretty distracted. It is pretty cool in our house too because of the cool weather but Kai didn't notice.
Lorelai has been dressing Kai up as a princess and fairy. I think she is pretty convincing that he would want to be a fairy and they dress up together. Then Kai tells me that he is a girl and he is a fairy or a princes. He will then try to wave his hands like he is dancing a little. Once he puts on his spider man costume he just wants to punch, hit, and scratch everyone. He also gets a mean face with a growl. I tried to tell him that isn't what spider man would do.
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